KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-78 Payload Specialists Robert
Brenton Thirsk (Canadian Space Agency) (left) and Jean-Jacques Favier
(French Space Agency) are holding an Olympic torch presented to the
crew after they arrived at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. The crew
will take the torch with them on their upcoming spaceflight and then
present it upon their return to a representative of the Atlanta
Committee for the Olympic games (ACOG). The countdown clock began
ticking earlier today toward the June 20 launch of the Space Shuttle
Columbia on Mission STS-78, the fifth Shuttle flight of 1996.
(Photo Release Date: 06/17/96
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